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Neighbors press Broom Street Hotel on courtyard noise, ask for sound study after alteration filing
Summary
Owners of the Broom Street Hotel told Community Board 2 they plan an alteration to license the hotel’s entire ground floor and move a bar forward into the lobby; neighbors warned that the open courtyard, shared fire escape and lack of an acoustical study make the proposal premature.
The Community Board 2 licensing committee heard detailed testimony about an alteration application for the Broom Street Hotel that would expand a wine license to cover the hotel’s entire ground floor and reposition a bar from the rear courtyard area into the lobby.
Phil Doer, an attorney representing the hotel’s principals, said the change is an alteration of the licensed footprint: the hotel is adding a full commercial kitchen in the back and wants the ground floor licensed in order to operate two public spaces in line with that work. Doer told the board that the hotel liquor license itself is still pending before the state liquor authority and that the alteration was being pursued now so construction could proceed while the larger hotel…
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